Back To Sea With Me

A collection of thoughts, realizations and learning experiences as I navigate my way through a maritime career. I'm currently a tugboat driver (Mate of Towing) for Sause Bros. Ocean Towing on the West Coast.

Friday, May 5, 2017

Master upgrade

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Last Fall, I tallied up my sea time as a Mate and realized that I had enough to apply for an upgrade to Master. In addition to that, I was ...

Friday, March 31, 2017

Stolen Bike Journey

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So, here’s the story of my bike from what I know… 2012 The frame after powder coating When I closed down the bike shop in 2012,...

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Back in the Bay

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It's my 4th hitch with Sause and I'm back on the Cochise and bouncing around between docks here in SF Bay. My hitch started out wit...

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Tandem Lumber South

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After a nice refreshing 44 days off, I got dispatched up to Portland to the tug Chinook that was doing the lumber run from Rainier down to L...

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Sause Bros Hitch 1

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Sitting in a bus-stop waiting area, waiting for my wife to pick me up here in Richmond outside the Chevron refinery. I just stepped off th...

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Sitting on the dock of the bay...

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That pretty much says it all. I arrived down in San Francisco about 2 weeks ago to start my hitch onboard the Sause tug "Cochise"...

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Change Course: new job!

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I haven't written anything for a while, so I thought I'd take a minute to update anyone who might wander across my blog now and the...

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